I was just accepted as a member and first wanted to thank those for the opportunity. I am currently looking for new friends on Xbox 360. My gamertag is TheSenorWakko and I do play MW3, but at the moment I am heavily into BO2. Look to seeing you around!!

One question, what do I put in my clan slot. I see the graphic on the side bar here, but since they do not seem to allow symbols, is all I put in is the number?

okay i have joined it shows i have joined but when i logged in on my ps3 it doesnt show me having an elite clan when i go to that part on my friends thing. i really want to play with members so what do i need to do? someone said i still showed having an open invite but im not sure

I am not going to blog until MW3 comes out, as there is nothing to say.

That being said there are a few things I am thinking about.

I have had a good run this last week. The other night I finished 2-3 in almost every leaderboard. Good KDR and good caps. I did have one game when I did not get a cap or a defend. Not one. Very weird. The lobby was good at playing Dom. Wrestled B back from us and then never gave it back. I could not get close to the flag. Unless you can control the high ground over B then you can forget keeping it and holding it.

Once that once in a lifetime game was over things picked up. We then won a good chunk of the games after that. I credit JVegas for this. I mention this because I think he demonstrated what it means to be good at being an annoying killwhore. IMHO there are about 4-6 people who I play with who can do this job well. What does this mean? Is it getting the most kills possible at all costs? Nope. In fact I think this role the person needs to demonstrate a lot of restraint. The matches that went well were on Discovery. I think this is a hard map to retrieve B from since there are no fewer than 4 places on the map that have better position than the capper who can all shoot at you. If you count the positions where the defender has = position to the capper cover wise the number of deadly places to try to cover when capping increases a great deal; thus making capping impossible.

Anyway, what I saw from my position as B slave, constantly monitoring and defending B, was JVegas flanking the entrenched positions of the other side of the board. This includes the common sniper windows and general annoyance of the other teams spawn running ghost and a shotgun. What I think JVegas excelled at was while doing this the spawns were locked down. They did not budge. There were a few times when I did not spawn behind A, but they were few, and I don’t remember spawning at C at all. This freed me up to do the things that I do moderately well, that is go even KDR over 15 kills, 3-6 caps and 3-14 defends.

So what I am saying is if you want to be a killwhore, great. Rock on. There are a lot of players who have the skill to make that happen. Going 27-6 is more than possible for a great number of you. What I think is just as important is making sure the spawns stay where they need to be. This is especially true when the match is 150-130. At that point even if we are winning one triple cap could lead to a loss. Flipping the spawns is how this happens. Honestly I would rather someone go 21-6 and leave the spawn alone.

“Go for C, lose all three”

I was looking to take a break and played some zombies. I ended up on Der Reise with N8. Never played the map much and with his expert guidance (he will deny it and claim there are those who know more) ended us up to lvl 14 without really trying. If I had monkey bombs I could have revived him. That ray gun can be a real pain when used at the close quarters like that. PaP RPK is the bomb. Just sayin’

I think when I take ‘Zombie breaks’ from playing I do better when I return to Multiplayer. I am not sure why. Maybe it is the target practice with the pistol, maybe the calm that knifing requires changes your mindset, maybe after playing the 1st three levels of Zombies over and over convinces you to return to the sanity of Multiplayer. Whatever it is it helps me get back on track.

I should have prestige. When the nights are bad they are really bad. But when they are good they are great. They way I have been playing the last 3 weeks I would have made it to 9th prestige for sure. Eh. I will get to 10th prestige on MW3 for sure.

After 2 prestiges of pure beating before I found the clan My W/L is less than 10 games from even. This is exciting. I can only imagine what it would have been if I had not played 60 levels with randumbs...

Welcome back Carl. I dish out a ton of shit, but I am seriously glad to have you back on the PS3 side.

What is the most bothersome thing for me is the drastic variation in the game quality. If I was always going to need 5 hit markers then I could adjust to that. But sometimes I need 2-3. I end up adjusting every match and swearing the whole time. Maybe by the end of the 200-75 drubbing I have almost figured out how to kill the guys who went 37-4.

Got my first hate mail yesterday. Woot. I assume it was a slam since it said something like ‘Fuck ECKO’. I was running the ‘joke’ in my tag. My playercard very prominently displays the EC30 in large red letters on a yellow background. Must have been a typ-o. This was after battling out with Beckvillebird for the top of the leaderboard on a Nuketown match. Apparently 37 (maybe 47? IDK) kills with a nearly even KDR means I deserve to be hate mailed. I will say there were multiple kills when I was surprised the guy died since I didn’t think I shot him that many times. I d say it is about time that I have a match where we are doing the smashing.

I was in a lobby earlier this week with Outlaw Girl, Bohica, and U40. I was excited since these are the closest clanmates geographically speaking. I was hopeing for some serious Host Pro. Yeah, not so much. It was 3 of the worst games I have had in about a month. It was that combination of above average players and slightly bad connection. They were everywhere all the time and killing me with 2 hits. The worst part was I was not the only one, as the whole lobby got smashed in a way that is reminiscent of what you would imagine if my college football team ran through one of my college D&D sessions (cue FDB “revenge of the Nerds” Vids). Even outlaw, who sports a respectable KDR (better than mine anyway, who am I kidding, my KDR is one of the worst in the clan I think) was getting slaughtered.

So my KDR is stuck frozen. 26000 deaths to 15000 something kills. It currently sits at .61 and has for some time. Just to get my KDR to .7 I need 2,340 more kills than deaths in the next 2 months. This is crazy. If I run an even KDR for the next 2340 kills (which will be nice but not likely) my KDR will only go up to .64.

Even my wife is like “So you play that game how much and you still suck? WTF are you doing all that time?” I try to respond with things like “in the event that we are overrun by the Zombie Apocalypse these catlike reflexes I am developing are going to come in handy when it comes to saving you and the kids”. Based on the look on her face the idea does not hold much water. I hope the look means she thinks I am full of shit because she knows that zombies are slow and not that the time spent on BO is a huge time waster since being quick is not necessarily required to survive the zombie hoard. I am sure better marriages than mine have been felled by issues less significant than this debate.

This is where I talk about how much I am looking forward to MW3 and the stats reboot. Playing with clan will do wonders for my W/L and my KDR will hopefully be closer to even-ish (a man can hope) since I seem to do better in lobbies where most of the players are better than I am. I also talk about how I love playing with you guys and if it was not for this group I would have put down BO and finished Demons Souls like I wanted to.

I am not going to do that I think since it has all already been said (except for the Demons’ Souls part, but I am going to assume that no one really cares except for Savvy who I know loves that game).

MW3 is 45 days away. I have MW3 killstreak fear. There are 2 reasons.

1)I think the support KS string may be overpowered. Every noob who can cap a flag will be getting the top end of this KS every match. I see jug every Dom match and close matches fought out one death at a time over the B flag with assault rifles will be replaced with teams full of guys dressed in the outfit from Hurt Locker lumbering to B Capping it solo as the other team tries in vain to kill them. The game then becomes a race up the support killstreak chain and close matches will be won and lost 4 minutes before the end of the match due to the use of KS that tip the balance of the match suddenly. I worry that every match will be like one of those Mismatched Games of HQ where I spend the match watching The1 or Vi through the voyeur cam because I died on the first person I saw and we lose 255 to 30.

2) really good players (You are good if you equip chopper/dog/blackbird and know you are likely to get them) who can run the Assault KS chain will suffer extreme bouts of motion sickness due to all the time spent in an aircraft. No one wants to listen to Nixon or Turp or Dave throw up on the Mic. Just sayin. With the stacking killstreaks spending time on the ground is just something to do until you can open up your laptop and call in something cool.

How funny that when playing a game on a computer you open up a computer and control a computer generated image. You are rewarded for being good in the game by being allowed to play another game inside the game you are in. This is one more example demonstrating that the Matrix is real.